Presenting ideas, proposals, and arguments to the public is always a risky practice, because not everyone plays on that level.<\/p>\n
If anything has been clear for a long time, it is that there are people, organizations, and even states that use lies, insults, defamation, and slander as propaganda tools<\/strong> to discredit those who hold ideas, proposals, and arguments they dislike. Why don't they respond to these approaches to public debate with better ideas, proposals, and arguments? Because they lack them. Lies, insults, defamation, and slander are the best evidence of intellectual and moral failure.<\/strong><\/p>\n History shows us precisely who most often resorts to these underhanded methods to try to silence, discredit, and even assassinate those who don't think like them. The great totalitarian regimes of the 20th century became skilled experts in the most despicable methods of attacking their rivals<\/strong>, and knowing what we know now, it's easy to understand why they resorted to these methods: they simply didn't want any rivals<\/strong>. They wanted to impose their hateful ideas on the entire society through lies and violence.<\/p>\n Communism and nazism are two prime examples of this intellectual and moral perversion that finds itself needing to resort to the dirtiest means to eliminate those who contradicted it. Today we have such clear examples as Putin's dictatorship, undoubtedly the regime that has lied the most in decades<\/strong>, constantly distorting the facts, manipulating and creating all kinds of hoaxes to cover up its crimes and present itself as an example of good and justice, as if both were compatible with tyranny and crime.<\/p>\n Just as the communists and the Nazis did in the last century<\/strong> (and continue to do today, in one case from dictatorships that have subjugated a fifth of humanity and in the other from the most absolute political marginality), today Putin's propagandists believe they can eliminate their opponents using the same underhanded techniques employed by Hitler, Stalin, and Mao<\/strong>, the three greatest mass murderers in history. The problem with their strategy is that they believe everyone is as out of touch with reality as they are. Today, Putin's crimes, like those of communism and Nazism, have been exposed to the eyes of the entire world.<\/strong><\/p>\n Given this fact, the best favor Putin's propagandists can do for decent people is to direct attacks at them<\/strong>, because whoever the enemies of freedom may be (communists, Nazis, fascists, Islamists, and supporters of terrorism in general), being attacked by them is, for decent people, like receiving a medal.<\/strong> It is the clearest sign that someone, however wrong they may be, has done something good enough to be hated by the admirers of a criminal like Putin. What would be truly offensive is receiving praise from such people.<\/strong> Please always keep this in mind.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n Image: Grok.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Presenting ideas, proposals, and arguments to the public is always a risky practice, because not everyone plays on that level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11415,10863],"tags":[10731,7887],"class_list":["post-66694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-plana-english","category-reflexions","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 10:51:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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